“We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard.” – JFK
In honor of the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11’s historic mission to the moon, Erik and Chris kick off Season 2 with a galactic-sized space-themed episode! Skylab, Voskhod 2, failed probes, Elon Musk, super stubborn Soviet scientists, and a special guest interview with Space GAAM’s Ryan Paul Thompson on some of the biggest fails in video game history!
For more epic (space) fails, check out “The Race to Space: Countdown to Liftoff” by Erik Slader and Ben Thompson!
Tickets are available now for SPACE GAAM! (Saturday, August 17th at the Schultz Center in Jacksonville, Florida)
Music clips:
“Space Oddity” by David Bowie (1969), “The X-Files Theme” (1993), and “Metroid” (NES, 1987)
Movie clips:
“2001: A Space Odyssey” (1968), “Monty Python and the Holy Grail” (1975), “Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” (2005), “The Martian” (2015)
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